Re: [PATCH] PM / clock_ops: initialize ret to avoid garbage being returned

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jan 18 2015 - 16:00:46 EST


On Thu 2015-01-08 15:31:01, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> cppcheck detected an unitialised ret:
> [drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c:53]: (error) Uninitialized variable: ret
>
> ret is only assigned if ce->status < PCE_STATUS_ERROR, if this is false
> then __pm_clk_enable returns whatever garbage ret picks up from the stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> index d626576..5bd283d 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct pm_clock_entry {
> */
> static inline int __pm_clk_enable(struct device *dev, struct pm_clock_entry *ce)
> {
> - int ret;
> + int ret = 0;
>
> if (ce->status < PCE_STATUS_ERROR) {
> ret = clk_enable(ce->clk);

Actually, is this right solution? If clock entry has an error, we
won't enable it, and should probably return some kind of error...?

Pavel
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